June 2026

June 2026

Stu Prest remembers Motown and Don Brown asks us to update his grad photo while remembering his ’78 Spitfire. Harvey reviews the last month, remembers some of his favourite music and wonders about the future of the association. I have a thought or two as I move from Ontario to Nova Scotia. Check it out.

April 2026

April 2026

More automobile memories this month along with a trip I made last week with Carol in which we head to Nova Scotia and end up buying a house by the sea. Harvey shakes his head over the latest bafoonery down south and much more so check it out today.

Alumni Connection December 2025

Alumni Connection December 2025

Harvey covers all the sports from trick or treating to snow shoveling. Jim Groundwater keeps it all in the family at Advanced Dynamics. Rob Ellicott takes the puck and a bow. Larry Llewellyn remembers Mel Smith and introduces our new feature Automobile Memories. Fred Hore shows us The Holiday Train, we tip our hat to some lost friends and the jokes are actually funny.

Alumni Connection July 2025

Alumni Connection July 2025

Happy Canada Day! One final issue of The Alumni Connection before we break for the summer. In this issue, Harvey crosses the border, Jane Lawrence scores a hole in one, Carol Storen reports from the No Kings demonstration in San Francisco, the Annual Alumni Bursary winners are announced and we say goodbye to three alumni including surrealist Artist, Alan Glass, Class of 1947.

Alumni Connection June 2025

Alumni Connection June 2025

Lots of reaction to the reunion in this newsletter. We have too many photos to put in the newsletter but we have been updating the 2025 Reunion page. We have more coming including the Class photos which we are still working on, so check out the newsletter and come back in about a wek’s time to see the rest.

Alumni Connection April 2025

Alumni Connection April 2025

One month closer to the reunion and it is now definitely time to get your tickets. We didn’t receive many submissions this month so don’t blame us for this month’s newsletter. At least it’s timely.

Special 2025 Reunion Newsletter Vol. 1

In ten short months your Association will hold its fifth all years reunion, with an expanded format featuring a Saturday School Tour, a Sunday Brunch/BBQ and several other changes which will be announced in the coming months. It is our intention to make this the best...
Alumni Connection October 2023

Alumni Connection October 2023

Editorial recap of the month that was September, Bob Wrigley remembers his most embarrassing moment in sport, St. Lambert International becomes the first school to adopt the Yondr program in Quebec in which students give up their phones during classes, more school news, an unfortunate return to our monthly obits, and the usual nonsense of random shots.

Alumni Connection September 2023

Alumni Connection September 2023

We’re back with a recap of the scorching hot summer, a trip to remember, praise for the reunion, news about Taylor’s, St Lambert Days, the expansiveness of memory, school news and more random shots of humour. Don’t miss it.

Alumni Connection May 2023

CCHS 2023 Reunion News Friday, May 19 & Saturday, May 20 There are not too many days left to get your tickets. We would like to have everyone signed up by May 5 so firm up your plans and please register now! There may be a very limited number of tickets available...

Alumni Connection May 2022

May 1 It looks like I have to start counting the days again. Shortly after lasts month’s newsletter was put to bed the Quebec Government announced we were in the 6th Covid pandemic wave. The government has been pussy footing around for days not wanting to admit that...

Alumni Connection July 2021

July 1 and it is day 474 and the situation continues to improve. June 5, a day to celebrate. My wife and I were able to get our second shot of Pfizer at a walk in clinic set up at the old Loblaws’ store on Panama Street in Brossard, four weeks earlier than the...

Alumni Connection February 2021

February 1, day 324 and nation wide things are getting worse. The vaccine rollout has had a few hiccups and, if the Quebec Government can be believed, people in my age bracket (old) should be vaccinated with a first dose by by the end of April or early May. This was...

Alumni Connection June 2020

Twelve weeks in and the golf course opens, much earlier than I thought it would, thank God. My first game was May 22 and it was sunny, hot and enjoyable, like a long walk in the park. The social distancing rules make for a strange experience. No lingering around the...

Alumni Connection June 2019

Click here for the July Newsletter May started out on a downer with cool, wet weather and the golf course still closed, forcing the Dirty Dozen, our long standing golf group, to cancel their first game of the season. Our Friday, May 10th game was cancelled as the club...